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Month: August 2007

  • UT Grand Prix 2007

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    Uniqlo’s annual “Creative Award” t-shirt design competition has been renamed “UT Grand Prix.” The submission period will run from August 15 to September 20. The grand prize winner will receive a 3 million yen award, and the judges this year include Sato Kashiwa, Tadao Ando, and Yayoi Kusama. Via Shift.

  • Alice in Tokyoland

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    Great little animated short mostly made up of Takashi Murakami’s graphic work for Louis Vuitton that makes it hard to hate corporate sponsorship/ad work. Via Tokyomango.

  • This Week at MoCo Loco

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    My Tokyo round-up for the week is up.

  • Koenji Animal Street

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    Nice figures from Kaori Takahashi’s “Koenji Animal Street” collection, which are currently being exhibited at Gallerie Juillet in Koenji until August 14. Via Paul Baron.

  • Fuji Kindergarten

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    MONOCLE posts a narrated slideshow — by their Tokyo bureau chief, Fiona Wilson — on the Fuji kindergarten in Tachikawa, a suburb of Tokyo. It was designed by Takaharu and Yui Tezuka.

  • How to Wrap with a Furoshiki

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    Great graphic from the Ministry of the Environment that shows how to wrap something with a traditional furoshiki cloth (or any cloth, for that matter). You can download a larger PDF version here.

  • Books on Phones Sell Well

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    A couple of interesting statistics for the past year from the Digital Content Association of Japan (from Anime New Network): Sales of electronic books (including manga) on phones grew 331.3% Sales of e-books (non-phone) grew 69.7%

  • Second MUJI Store in New York

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    We all know that MUJI is set to open a flagship store in New York this fall — at the New York Times building on Eighth Avenue — marking their official entry into the US market. New to me is the fact that the brand already has a second store planned, also set for a…